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Using comic art to improve speaking, reading and writing / / Steve Bowkett and Tony Hitchman



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Autore: Bowkett Stephen Visualizza persona
Titolo: Using comic art to improve speaking, reading and writing / / Steve Bowkett and Tony Hitchman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
Edizione: [1st.].
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
Disciplina: 372.62/3044
Soggetto topico: Comic books, strips, etc., in education
Oral communication - Study and teaching (Elementary)
Reading (Elementary)
English language - Composition and exercises - Study and teaching (Elementary)
Language arts (Elementary)
Altri autori: HitchmanTony <1952->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: Comic Art as a Visual Organiser for Planning Writing; 1. Strong Openings; 2. Opening Lines; 3. What do you want the Reader to See?; 4. Details Add to the Tension; 5. Jump into the Action; 6. Small, Important Details; 7. Drawing as Visual Shorthand; 8. Scripting; 9. Strong Endings; 10. Creating Quick Characters; 11. Don't take that Tone with Me!; 12. Heroes and Villains; 13. Controlling Pace; 14. Build Up the Drama; 15. Anticipation; 16. Genre; 17. Using Kapow! Techniques for Art Appreciation; 18. Kapow! Techniques and Non-Fiction Writing
19. A Note on Rough Layouts20. Afterword - the Learning Value of Comics; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Using Comic Art to Improve Speaking, Reading and Writing uses children's interest in pictures, comics and graphic novels as a way of developing their creative writing abilities, reading skills and oracy. The book's underpinning strategy is the use of comic art images as a visual analogue to help children generate, organise and refine their ideas when writing and talking about text. In reading comic books children are engaging with highly complex and structured narrative forms. Whether they realise it or not, their emergent visual literacy promotes thinking skills and develops wider metacogniti
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ISBN: 1-136-67536-1
9786613833402
1-136-67537-X
1-283-52095-8
0-203-80944-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910791920903321
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